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Forms

lardārium n (genitive lardāriī); second declension[1][2] Variants lardeārium and lardērium are recorded,[2][3] as is laridārium.[3]

Etymology

It is from Latin lāridum (“bacon, lard”),[2] or its contracted form lardum,[4] with the suffix -ārium of places for storing things.[2][4] Osbern of Gloucester derived the variant ⟨laridarium⟩ from ⟨laridus⟩.[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler finds it first in a text of Adalhard of 822,[2] where it is a store of bacon or a room for keeping it.[2]

Semantic evolution

In medieval Latin it meant a room or building where meat, especially salted pork, was stored, a larder, and also the department of a household that ran it.[3][5][2] British sources use it of the royal larder, of stored meat itself, of the work of laying in salted meat (facere lardarium), and of a rent paid in place of a food rent, the “larder-silver”.[3] Köbler also records a levy on salting.[2] The Tironian notes have it for a piece of bacon.[1]

French had the derivatives lardier and lardage, as a charter of 1313 shows.[6] English took the word over through Anglo-French as larder.[4]

Timeline

  • 822 – Adalhard has it for a store of bacon.[2]
  • c. 1300 – English borrows it through Anglo-French as larder, a supply of salted meat.[4]
  • 1308 – An English account sends twenty carcasses to the abbot's larder.[3]
  • 1313 – A French charter speaks of dues called le Lardier.[6]

Meanings

Noun

  1. (Medieval Latin) A room or building for storing bacon and other meat; a larder.[2][3][5]
  2. (Medieval Latin) The department of a household in charge of stored meat.[3]
  3. (Medieval Latin) Stored meat; a supply of meat.[3][2]
  4. (Medieval Latin) A rent or levy connected with the larder.[3][2]
  5. A piece of bacon.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Latham, R. E., D. R. Howlett, R. K. Ashdowne, et al. (1975–2013), Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: British Academy / Oxford University Press
  4. ^ a b c d Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
  5. ^ a b Latinitatis medii aevi lexicon Bohemorum / Slovník středověké latiny v českých zemích (1977–), Prague: Academia; electronic version, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  6. ^ a b du Cange, Charles du Fresne, et al. (1883–1887), Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, augmented ed. by Léopold Favre, Niort: L. Favre